Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization (Adriaenssens Sigrid)(Paperback)

Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization (Adriaenssens Sigrid)(Paperback)

*** Featuring a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban *** Bringing together experts from research and practice, Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (Rybczynski Witold)(Paperback)

An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form--but it remains

Co-Machines: Mobile Disruptive Architecture (Dorocic Dan)(Paperback)

Temporary mobile zones: how artists and designers are pursuing new provisional structures for work and playThis handsomely designed volume maps out a new architectural movement motivated by practices of place-making, occupying and squatting. All the interventions are mobile and nearly all of them

Linear Optimization for Business: Theory and practical application (Singer Marcos)(Paperback)

This book takes a unique approach to linear optimization by focusing on the underlying principles and business applications of a topic more often taught from a mathematical and computational perspective. By shifting the perspective away from heavy math, students learn how optimization can be used

Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Swaffield Simon)(Paperback)

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures,

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Hering David)(Paperback)

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the

Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice (Battisto Dina)(Paperback)

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three

Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture (Salvadori Mario)(Paperback)

Between a nomad's tent and the Sears Tower lies a revolution in technology, materials, and structures. Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to buildings methods from ancient times to the present day, including recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the

Poetic Metre and Form (Wynne Octavia)(Paperback / softback)

The world's best pocket book on the structure of

Architecture for Kids: Skill-Building Activities for Future Architects (Moreno Mark)(Paperback)

A hands-on introduction to drawing and architecture for kids 8 to 12 Architects play an important role in helping buildings, cities, and communities thrive. If you're interested in architecture, Architecture for Kids will introduce you to all of the most important terms and skills every aspiring

Sock Architecture (Neel Lara)(Paperback)

Sock Architecture is perfect for both experienced and novice sock knitters. This thorough, imaginative collection of sock shapes and patterns gives you the tools to construct an astounding variety of custom socks. All heels and toes are carefully explained and clearly photographed, and you can plug

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud (Mistrik Ivan)(Paperback)

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud is designed to be a single resource that brings together research on how software architectures can solve the challenges imposed by building big data software systems. The challenges of big data on the software architecture can relate to scale,

Drawing for Architecture (Krier Leon)(Paperback)

Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Martin Robert)(Paperback)

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. 'Uncle Bob' Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to application architecture and design. As with his other books, Martin's Clean Architecture doesn't merely

Bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Bash Users (D. Carl Albing Ph.)(Paperback)

For system administrators, programmers, and end users, shell command or carefully crafted shell script can save you time and effort, or facilitate consistency and repeatability for a variety of common tasks. This cookbook provides more than 300 practical recipes for using bash, the popular Unix

After the Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing (Kostera Monika)(Paperback)

Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond (Rosenfeld Louis)(Paperback)

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging--and necessary--than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple

Story Structure and Development: A Guide for Animators, Vfx Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality (Caldwell Craig)(Paperback)

Professor Craig Caldwell's Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements, principles, and structure for animators, designers, and artists so they can incorporate these concepts in their work. As a practical guide it includes

Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle (Green Sophie)(Paperback / softback)

An irresistibly uplifting story about finding joy and friendship, from the author of The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book

Form and Design in Classic Architecture (Stratton Arthur)(Paperback)

Informative, readable text and 100 handsome illustrations of magnificent buildings make this book appealing not only to architects and architectural historians, but also to anyone with even a casual interest in architecture and design. It explains in simple terms the ways in which the relationship

The Future of Modular Architecture (Wallance David)(Paperback)

The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale. Advocating for the adoption of open-source design based on a new modular standard, the book shows how the

Sold (Winters Willow)(Paperback)

She's scared and broken, but soon she'll be mine. For a month she'll have to obey my every command. But she doesn't have to worry, I'll care for all her desires. I was only a boy when I saw my mother murdered in front of me. That does something to a man. It turns him hard, cold and makes him an

Word Wasp - A Manual for Teaching the Rules and Structures of Spelling (Cowling Harry)(Paperback / softback)

Design Integration Using Autodesk Revit 2022: Architecture, Structure and Mep (Stine Daniel John)(Paperback)

Design Integration Using Autodesk Revit 2022 is designed to provide you with a well-rounded knowledge of Autodesk Revit tools and techniques. All three disciplines of the Revit platform are introduced in this textbook. This approach gives you a broad overview of the Building Information Modeling